Mothra's a guy, he's just a little bishonen! :)
Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 2:59 amWhy do people always assume that Mothra's a girl? Sure he's got an egg on his island but if you had to lay something that much bigger than you, what makes you think you'd live to tell about it?If its because of the twin priestesses, no one attacks King Seesar's masculinity for only rising to action when a girl starts crooning. Can you seriously picture a handsome young guy singing, "Kin-gu Shiiiiiii-saaaaaaaaa". If its because Mothra's colorful, the pattern and color of moths and butterflies' wings tend to be unisex. In biology, anyways, it tends to be the male who has the more brilliant display (por ejemplo: baboon hineys).
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On this same note, what happened to the second larva? As an alternative self-contained line of descent to the One Mothra Theory in which Mothra lays its successor from an unfertilized egg (or self-fertilized, but thats too creepy) and in which twins are strange and rare, I present the Two Mothra Theory!
#2 Bagworm and #26 Whitemarked Tussock Moth.
When the caterpillars of the above two moths become adults, the females remain wingless (and in the case of the bagworm, legless, eyeless, and ugly as sin). If the female Mothra always lays an egg with two larvae inside, one female and the other male, then the male can protect Infant Island and the earthbound female will remain within the island's deep caverns or thick jungle. Toho avoids showing her because she can't advance the story any after taking up screen time and showing a wingless Mothra might adversely affect M's image.[/list]
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On this same note, what happened to the second larva? As an alternative self-contained line of descent to the One Mothra Theory in which Mothra lays its successor from an unfertilized egg (or self-fertilized, but thats too creepy) and in which twins are strange and rare, I present the Two Mothra Theory!
#2 Bagworm and #26 Whitemarked Tussock Moth.
When the caterpillars of the above two moths become adults, the females remain wingless (and in the case of the bagworm, legless, eyeless, and ugly as sin). If the female Mothra always lays an egg with two larvae inside, one female and the other male, then the male can protect Infant Island and the earthbound female will remain within the island's deep caverns or thick jungle. Toho avoids showing her because she can't advance the story any after taking up screen time and showing a wingless Mothra might adversely affect M's image.[/list]
